Thread: changing datatype failure

public class Ex21{
	public static void main(String args[]){
		int num1, num2, num3, total1, total2;
		num1 = Keyboard.readInt();
		num2 = Keyboard.readInt();
		num3 = Keyboard.readInt();
		total1 = num1+num2+num3;
		total2 = (double)total1/3;
 
 
	}
}

the last row is the error and my exercise from the book says i have to do it this way instead of initializing the varible a double
anyone know how to solve this?
thank you

This looks familiar!
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Are you two taking the same class?

i think so yeah im learning java too but his question seemed a little different
do you know how to solve it?

Can you copy and paste the error message you got?

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem:
Type mismatch: cannot convert from double to int

at Ex21.main(Ex21.java:8)

That's a funny-looking compiler error. What are you compiling that with? Did you write the Keyboard class?

Is this a copy of the code in your book, or did you add something to some code that worked before?

im using eclipse
oh i forgot to mention that the Keyboard class should be working correctly they instructed me to use it instead of Scanner to get user input

nope not from the book just tried to follow the instructions for the exercise but when i make it a double the usual way by like this "double total1;" it works
my teacher recommended notepad because he thins eclipse = cheating, dont know what he meant he hasnt replied yet

Can you explain what

(double)total1/3;

is doing? What happens if you remove the cast to double?

it will calculate the averege (if thats what its called in english) of the 3 intergers the user inputs
when i make the program in c++ language it seems fine to cast and when i do it in java the way the book wants me to do, its gives me an error
i would love to encounter this by not using cast but of course i cant because of the instructions given

cannot convert from double to int

If that's an Eclipse error, it's a bit misleading. Java can convert from double to int, it just won't do it implicitly (without you telling it to do it). I think the error message from the ordinary command-line Java compiler is a bit more helpful.
The expression

total1/3

is an int expression - total1 is an int and so is 3. An int divided by an int is an int. The '(double)' tells Java to convert total1 into a double value before dividing it by 3. a double divided by an int is a double (Java *can* convert this way implicitly because no data is lost). You're assigning (with '=') that double result to total2 which is an int. Java can't assign (by converting) a double result to an int variable because double is a floating point type - it might have a non-integer part which would be lost on conversion to an int. There's one explicit data type conversion on that line already, it seems as though you need another one to make that line work.

thank you soooo much!! i changed total2 to a double instead of an int and now the cast works correctly! nd my exercise is finished now thanks to you

heres the small change:

public class Ex21{
	public static void main(String args[]){
		int num1, num2, num3, total1;
		double total2;
		num1 = Keyboard.readInt();
		num2 = Keyboard.readInt();
		num3 = Keyboard.readInt();
		total1 = num1+num2+num3;
		total2 = (double)total1/3;
 
 
	}
}

now i can continue with programming and hope in 10 years i will become a good experienced programmer like you
thank you once again!

I'm glad you believe the exercise is successfully completed. Let's hope your teacher feels the same way